The Cleveland Show

[cowboy2001]

Just watched the pilot on Hulu ... King of the Hill got canceled for this ****?!

 

[fishwrapper]

King of the Hill got canceled because no one was watching it anymore.
It's a pretty simple formula.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The Cleveland Show's premiere would have worked as a one-shot Family Guy episode:

Give Cleveland a family almost identical to Peter's: Hot wife, Fat, sort of dumb older son, daughter who parents are not happy with, smart-ass infant. But make them African-American and have a redneck be the neighbor. Yay, single-episode comedy . . . myrrrh (what, you thought I'd say "Gold"?).

But having him stay there instead of going to California (with an aching . . . in his heart)? Yeah, this will last more than one season. Only because they want to keep Seth MacFarlane happy. Just tough to watch. Of course, so was American Dad at first, and Family Guy's early episodes now play like a third-rate Simpsons wannabe. Both shows improved, so we'll see.

Family Guy premiere was pretty funny, though.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

By and large, the critics who ripped Cleveland didn't want to like it. And it showed.

It needs work, but the laughs were there, and it's already ten times the show unmitigated crap like American Dad will ever be.

Needless to say, the Family
Guy season-opener was priceless, as are most of the dedicated Stewie/Brian
festivals.

 

[Killick]

"A Jew!"
Yeah, the FG premiere had a bunch of
laughs. I really loved the Robot Chicken dimension when Stewie (McF) asks Chris (Seth Green) "So, how does it feel to be on a major network for 30 seconds?" Hilarious.

 

[mustangj17]

Awesome episode. Family dog is named Meadowlark Lemon

 

[Moderator1]

This show is absolutely awful.

 

[Boom_70]

Sorry thought this was about Eric Mangini

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

This show is absolutely awful.

Well said. It's basically background noise between the Simpsons and Family Guy.


But I may have to start surfing in between the two.

 

[amraeder]

I definitely wasn't impressed with the opener, but, hey, I'll give it a shot....

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Tonight was the second show. Premiere was last week.

 

[ScribePharisee]

Hank and family needed to be the lead in to The Simpsons like it used to be.

 

[Batman]

I did like the Cleveland Show reference on Family Guy tonight.

 

[BYH]

I did like the Cleveland Show reference on Family Guy tonight.

That was HILARIOUS.

Not as funny, though, as Quagmire discovering Internet porn and then displaying his much bigger right arm.

 

[ScribePharisee]

Dammit. I miss Hank.

 

[YGBFKM]

KOTH was one of the best written shows on televison. It actually took a little thought to put those episodes together and the characters were relatable, unlike Family Guy, which is funny but is just 30 minutes of crude jokes and ripoffs of other people's creativity. As for the Cleveland Show, the pilot didn't do much for me, and I couldn't get past the first five minutes of the latest episode.

 

[ScribePharisee]

And yet, maybe TV networks are run like newspapers.

Good show? **** it. Let's get this garbage some prime time!

 

[Colton]

Sorry thought this was about Eric Mangini

Along similar lines, I thought it was about Scissorhands Edwards

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Dammit. I miss Hank.

That's nice, but I haven't gone anywhere.

 

[ScribePharisee]

See what the hell happens? You throw Hank Hill into the unemployment line, he goes and joins some astrology cult in his depression. Sonofabitch. Get the show back on. We must save him.